Casket top and panel fastener



May 12, 1925. 1,537,870

J. R. NESTER CASKET TOP AND PANEL FASTENER Filed'June 18, 1925 John R. Neste'r.

@53 i. f it mm To all whom 2'25 may concern Patented May 12, 1925.

UNITED STATES JOHN R. nnsrnn, or BQYERTOWN, r nnnsrtvanra.

CASKET TOPAND PANEL FASTENER.

Application filed. June 18, 1923. Serial No. 646,169.

Be it known that I, JOHN R..Nnsrnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Boyertown, in the county of Berks and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Casket Top and Panel Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to looks for casket tops and panels, and is to a large extent an improvement on my co-pending application, Serial No. 528,936. The object of the present invention is to provide a structure of greater simplicity, which may be more accurately and quickly secured to a burial casket, and which is therefore more positive in its action.

Another object is to provide a structure in which the parts are assembled by securing them to the casket, thereby avoiding an as sembling operation prior to the operation of securmg the lock in place.-

l/Vith these and other objects in view,-the invention resides in certain novel features of construction and combination and arrangements of parts, the essential features of which are hereinafter fully described, are particularly pointed out in the appended claims, and are illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which 3 Figure ing means, with fragmentary portions of the burial casket in section.

Figure 2 is a detached perspective view of the members comprising the locking means or complete device.

a plate 13, and

Figure 3 is a longitudinal sectional view of the lowermost member.

Like characters of reference refer to like parts in all the views.

Referring to the drawing in'detail, 10 represents a portion of a casket, which is morticed out at 11 to receive the principal portion of the locking device. This portion of the locking device consists essentially of three parts,a lower plate 12, an upper an interposed latch 14.

The lower plate 12, is formed with a central aperture 15, for permitting the passage of the tongue of the hasp member later to be described. At one end, the plate 12, is formed with a screw hole 161 and at the other with an apertured boss 17, which is punched up from the plate to a height equal to the thickness of the latch member 14.

The upper plate 13 is formed with an 1 is a side elevation of the lock elongated central slot 18 which registers with the slot 15, and with screw holes 19" which register respectively with the hole 16 and the hole in the boss 17.

The latch member 14 is formed with a looking nose 20 for insertion into the eye of the hasp member and with a finger piece 21 for operation" of. the'latch. It'is pro vided with a screw hole in the end opposite the finger piece and'through this one of the retaining screws passes thereby forming the pivot of the latch member. It will also be seen that the back of the latch member is flat as at 22 and this flat part co-operates with the end of the mortice 11 to form a limit for the outward movement of the latch.

The hasp member is the same as in my co-pending application above referred. to,

and as shown consists of a body 23 provided.

with screw holes for effecting the securing of the device to the casket. From the body 23 there depends a tongue 24 in which there is formed a locking eye 25.

, The lock is adapted for securing the entire top 011 a casket or for securing panels in place thereon as may seem most desirable. In operation, the tongue 24 is thrust through the slots 18 and 15 in the plates 13 and'12 and this brings the eye 25 in registry with the aperture between these plates. The latch member 14 is then moved to bring its nose 20 into the eye 25. The distance. be-

, tween the plates is positively determined by While I have described what I deem to be the most desirable embodiment-of my invention, itis obvious that many of the parts may be varied without in any way departing from the spirit of my invention,

and I therefore do not limit myself to the exact details of construction herein shown nor to anything less than the whole of my invention limited only by the appended claims.

What I claim is -1. Ina device of the class described, the combination of a bottom plate formed with a boss, an upper plate, and a locking latch pivoted therebetween at the end of the plates opposite the said boss.

2. In a device of the class described, the

combination with a pivoted locking latch of a lower plate formed with a boss the thicki ness ofsaid latch, an upper plate, and a securing member passing through the first three members to secure them to a casket and to form the pivot of saidlocking latch;

- 3. A casket lock comprising an apertured hasp, an apertured bottom plate and an upper apertured plate for receiving said hasp, a boss on said bottom plate, a locking latch pivoted between the bottom and upper plates at the end of the plate opposite to said boss, and a'locking noseon said latch for insertion through said hasp.

4. A casketlock comprising a bottom plate, a pivoted locking latch, an upper plate, .a boss for-med on said bottom plate the thickness ofsaid latch, a securing member passing through the latch, upper and bottom plates to secure them to a casket and to form a pivot :Eorsaid locking latch,

said bottom and upper plates being aperplate, a pivoted locking latch, an upper plate, a securing member passing through the latch, upper and bottom plates to secure them to a. casket and to form a pivot for saidlocking latch, said bottom and upper plates being apertured, a hasp for insertion through said apertures and co-operation with said locking latch, said hasp being perforated, and a locking nose on the latch adapted for insertion through the perforations in the hasp. i

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

J OHN' R. NESTER. 

